Why do the house numbers go up on one side of a small London road and back down on the other? Whatever the reason, it was cause for a familiar scene – a quartet of musicians dragging their instruments on their backs, wandering around another foreign city, not quite sure where to go. Once we figured out which one was actually Mitsuko’s house and rang the bell, we had another question – whose voice was that calling out to us so enthusiastically from behind that door? Does she have children?